The Very Terrible Drowning of Bryan Price tells the story of Kate Barkway, a middle-aged wife and mother living in an idyllic West Michigan town... #novella #mystery #murder #Michigan #triathlon www.finishinglinepress.com/product/the-...

An Excerpt From a Novella by Colleen Alles paddockreview.com/2026/01/07/a... #novella #mystery #murder #Michigan #triathlon

New Short Story Collection from FLP: Hair Brush with Fame by Lisa Johnson Mitchell On SALE now: www.finishinglinepress.com/product/hair... Hair Brush with Fame chronicles the #celebrity #encounters of Lisa Johnson Mitchell… #shortstories #shortstory #funny #celebrities #celebrity

ATTN: FLP AUTHORS.  Finishing Line Press will be at AWP 2026.   Come and sign your FLP book Baltimore, Maryland: March 4-7, 2026 Please email Deirdre Fagan for more details at [email protected].   Please put “AWP Book Signing” in the subject line. Deirdre will give you a scheduled time slot.

OPEN CHAPBOOK COMPETITION A prize of $1,500 and publication by Finishing Line Press is given annually for a poetry chapbook. Deadline: February 15, 2026 FLP strongly encourages submission via our submittable page: finishinglinepress.submittable.com/submit #contest #poetry #book #chapbook

FLP BOOK OF THE DAY: The Race for Daphne by Sarah C. Beckmann On SALE: www.finishinglinepress.com/product/the-... The Race for Daphne, a collection of poetry structured as a crew race, reflects a metaphor: life is a race, a battle. #poetry #women #rowing #crew #genealogy #mythology

Poems about the Midwest, and a Midwest in the mind, of the mind. Some usual domestic scenes, landscapes: the look of things. And into the look of things, and through. Here, and there. Down and in… #Midwest #Ohio #domestic/interiors #landscape #mid-20th www.finishinglinepress.com/product/hall...

A Poem by Allen Strous paddockreview.com/2026/01/06/a... #poetry #life #towns

FLP BOOK OF THE DAY: A Moth Collection by Anna Ojascastro Guzon On SALE: www.finishinglinepress.com/product/a-mo... The poems of A Moth Collection converse with Charles Darwin, Tina Turner, Sylvia Plath, Sacagawea… #death, #rebirth, #survival, #motherhood, #marriage, #poetry #FilipinoAmerican

Body of Work reflects the frustrations and joys of a fortysomething woman in a world that feels very much on fire almost all of the time... #bodilyautonomy #bodyofwork #fortysomething #poetry #mybodymychoice grownupfriends girlfriends www.finishinglinepress.com/product/body... @rowe_carenen

A Poem by Rowe Carenen paddockreview.com/2026/01/05/a... #poetry #life #body #sleep

The poems in Ask River explore themes of perspective, #memory and #resilience; the complex and sometimes troublesome #relationships humans have with the natural world, as well as with each other. With perspectives ranging from #childhood to #elderhood… www.finishinglinepress.com/product/ask-...

The poems in The Third Remembrance encourage readers to contemplate of our #aging and inevitable #death, and to know that we are actually happier for being present with it. The #poems… www.finishinglinepress.com/product/the-...

A Poem by Jayne Brown paddockreview.com/2026/01/04/a... #poetry #life #falling

Waning Into Winter is a collection of my poems born on the wings of Wonder and Awe of the Beauty of Nature’s Wisdom. #struggles #life #poetry #nature #listening #wisdom #revelation #strength #wonder #awe www.finishinglinepress.com/product/wani...

A Poem by Martha Sherick Shen paddockreview.com/2026/01/02/a... #nature #life #poetry

Twilight stillness, long drives across the Midwest, migrating flocks, the redolent smells of basil and peaches become occasions in this collection for noticing seasonal transitions, environmental change… #poetry #environment #common ground #seasons www.finishinglinepress.com/product/a-ti...

A Poem by Charlotte Melin paddockreview.com/2026/01/02/a... #poetry #life #nature #beach

a sky with two moons is Suzanne Simons’ collection of astronomy poems based on actual astronomical events and phenomena from the post-Apollo moon missions of the early 1970s to the present. Suzannesimons.net. #poetry #astronomy. www.finishinglinepress.com/product/a-sk...

A Poem by Suzanne Simons paddockreview.com/2026/01/01/a... #poetry #astronomy #space #stars #life

All That Blue traverses geographies of place, mental illness, coming-of-age, and desire. The poems take on a variety of free-verse forms and hinge on images of the natural world as they reflect the speaker’s... #poetry #desire #landscape #lyric www.finishinglinepress.com/product/all-...

A Poem by Allison Field Bell paddockreview.com/2026/01/01/a... #life #poetry #nature

The fifty-seven poems of but for this mess represent nearly two decades of the author’s collected works. Their subjects and inspirations range widely in scope, yet each poem reads with a clear-eye sense of place, time, and personal significance unique… www.finishinglinepress.com/product/but-...

A Poem by Cara Lorello paddockreview.com/2025/12/31/a... #life #nature #environment #poetry

David Appelbaum’s latest collection, Manan, the Magnificent, is a book-length poem—luminous, somber, tangled—where reflection meets fracture. #loss #renewal #hope #poetry David Appelbaum, founder of Codhill Press www.finishinglinepress.com/product/mana...

Between Sunsets memorializes transitions of seasons, relationships, and lives. This hybrid collection of poetry and prose speaks to those everyday moments of growth and navigating life during those in between moments of loss. #poetry #prose www.finishinglinepress.com/product/betw... @yvettemuses

A Poem by Yvette J. Green paddockreview.com/2025/12/31/a... #life #poetry #feminineenergy #feminine #dance

Poems for a Broken Marriage Man is a poetry collection reflecting on the dissolution of one woman’s relationship in the wake of her spouse’s addictions and the emotional abuse that stemmed from those addictions. www.finishinglinepress.com/product/poem... @leslie.archibald

A Poem by Leslie Archibald paddockreview.com/2025/12/30/a... #life #poetry #relationships #healing

Check out this book review of SMALL TALK: www.jewishbookcouncil.org/book/small-t... #poetry #bookreview #recommendations

Lately contends with the issues an elongating life affords us, if we’re lucky enough to have one, and does so with a bluntness and thoughtfulness and a certain amount of wit. www.finishinglinepress.com/product/late... @charlescobean

A Poem by Charles S. Cobean paddockreview.com/2025/12/30/a... #life #poetry #relationships #memories #amnesia

After the events of October 7th, it seemed like the Holy Land was anything but. City of Silver and Gold explores these events against the backdrop of the ongoing conflict in the… #October 7 #middleeastconflict #culturalidentity #peace #unitycoexistence. www.finishinglinepress.com/product/city...

A Poem by Miles Liss paddockreview.com/2025/12/30/a... #life #poetry #holyland

Haiku for the Journey uses traditional 5/7/5 three-line syllabic form to inspire cyclical, poetic reflection. Cynthia T. Hahn‘s poems express reverence for nature’s layering of light and dark, of trembling and… #haiku#reflection#seasons#art#nature www.finishinglinepress.com/product/haik...

Haiku by Cynthia T. Hahn paddockreview.com/2025/12/29/h...

Nothing Left to Fix traces a father’s battle with Valley Fever and its devastating complications. Through poems that move from diagnosis to death to grief, this collection explores the inadequacy of medical... #poetry #illness #caregiving #grief #love www.finishinglinepress.com/product/noth...

A Poem by January Pearson paddockreview.com/2025/12/29/a... #poetry #life #relationships

Very excited to do this! Titls available from the usual vendors! (novel on Blurb) @finishinglinepress.bsky.social @alienbuddhapress.bsky.social @scwriter.bsky.social #rockhill #poetry #prose #southernlit

In Good Job, Jessica Farquhar maps the overlapping terrains of motherhood, artmaking, and professional life, examining how worth becomes entangled with visibility and the necessity of putting oneself out … #motherhood #life #artmaking www.finishinglinepress.com/product/good... @jessicafarquharpoet

A Poem by JESSICA FARQUHAR paddockreview.com/2025/12/29/a... #poetry #life #relationships

Rollercoaster of Life offers poems that express the delights and care of children, conversations with nature, and include the ups and downs of living that let tears flow and grief be expressed. #poetry #nature #grief #aging #life @caritophyllis www.finishinglinepress.com/product/roll...

Dreaming Fathers is an account of the relationship between a father scarred by the destruction of his childhood life by the rise of Hitler, his service in the U.S Army in World War 2, especially as one of the Ritchie Boys, his... #poetry #PTSD #father www.finishinglinepress.com/product/drea...

A Poem by David Kann paddockreview.com/2025/12/28/a... #war #ww2 #life #Jewish #poetry

My book isn’t named for the ballet or for the birds. It’s named for black swan events, which are unpredicted, impactful occurrences. Historical examples of black swan events include the stock market crash and 9/11. #black #swan www.finishinglinepress.com/product/blac...

A Poem by Kathleen Shaw paddockreview.com/2025/12/28/a... #poetry #nature #birds

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My poetry book is in its preorder period. Buying now will give you $2 OFF and will assist the success of my book! Poet Tess Gallagher: “I finished the book feeling greatly uplifted." Order link: www.finishinglinepress.com/product/padd... @finishinglinepress.bsky.social

Rustling and overgrown fields, a persimmon in hand, hazy cross-country train rides, wildflowers of every color. What flowers may come projects dreamy meaning onto the surrounding landscape, revealing the unspoken, biggest meanings behind a life’s… www.finishinglinepress.com/product/what...